What happens before a witch becomes a witch? Before Chaos Magic, before occult study, before building her own spiritual path, there was a little girl surrounded by rosaries, saints, Catholic rituals, family expectations, and questions no one seemed able to answer. Virgo Sun is the first volume of the Dear Diaries series, an autobiographical journey into Lua Astor’s earliest years. Told through the intimate and often disarmingly perceptive voice of her childhood self, the book follows Lia as she is raised within a deeply religious family and learns to navigate faith, privilege, abandonment, grief, femininity, family secrets, and the strange contradictions of the adult world. Her childhood is filled with beauty: old houses, gardens, books, ceremonies, elegant relatives, church festivals, devotional practices, and the comforting presence of the Virgin Mary. Yet beneath that beauty are unsettling realities. Lia encounters illness, death, fractured families, social expectations, religious fear, and experiences she is still too young to fully understand. And she keeps asking questions. If there is only one God, why have humans worshipped so many? If God is loving, why do children suffer? Why do adults teach morality while breaking their own rules? Where does faith end and fear begin? And what happens when a child discovers that the people who claim authority do not necessarily possess certainty? Tender, strange, funny, painful, and at times unexpectedly dark, Virgo Sun is more than a memoir of a Christian childhood. It is the beginning of an intellectual and spiritual rebellion. Readers familiar with Lua Astor’s later work in Chaos Magic will encounter something especially revealing here: not the fully formed occultist, but the child who came before her, deeply devotional, intensely imaginative, fascinated by the sacred, and already incapable of accepting an answer simply because an adult told her it was true. Virgo Sun is an origin story about faith before magic, innocence before knowledge, and the questions that eventually become a path of their own.